Аннотация
Jack Higgins
On dangerous ground
PROLOGUE
CHUNGKING AUGUST 1944
Thepilot, flight lieutenant Joe Caine of RAF Transport Command, was tired, frozen to the bone, his hands clamped to the control column. He eased it forward and took the plane down, emerging from low cloud at three thousand feet into driving rain.
The aircraft ploughing its way through heavy cloud and thunderstorm was a Douglas DC3, the famous Dakota, as much a workhorse for the American Air Force as the RAF, who together operated them out of the Assam Airfields of North India, flying supplies to Chiang Kai-shek's Chinese army. On their way, they negotiated the infamous Hump, as it was known to Allied aircrews, the Himalayan mountains, trying to survive in some of the worst flying conditions in the world.
"There she is, Skipper," the second pilot said. "Dead ahead. Three miles."
"And the usual lousy blackout," Caine said, which was true enough. The inhabitants of Chungking were n...
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